Lord’s Supper

Introduction:

As Jesus gathered with His disciples to partake the passover - He tells His disciples He has earnestly desired to eat this passover with them before He suffers

The disciples were not ready or expecting that Jesus would reveal the true meaning to this celebration

The disciples would have been solely focused on the meaning of the passover from the story from Exodus

WE find the disciples looking to remember and celebrate what God did when Israel was in Egypt as salves - God’s chosen people without hope - Content and complacent

To understand the depth of the disciples’ perspective, let us briefly step into their sandals and revisit the story of the first Passover in Exodus—a story of bondage, deliverance, and God’s unshakable covenant with His people.

God appears to Moses at a burning bush and says in Exodus 3:7 -8 (ESV) — 7 … “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey,

Exodus 3:10 (ESV) — 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Moses and his brother Aaron goes and asks that Pharaoh lets them go sacrifice to the Lord their God

Pharaoh says no and makes the Israelites work even heavier so they would forget what God was saying and doing

We find 10 plagues that God uses to free His people from the bonds of slavery

Water to blood

Frogs

Gnats

Flies

Egyptian livestock dies

boils

Hail

Locusts

Darkness

Death of Firstborn

In between the 9th & 10th plague God establishes the Passover

It says God harden pharaos heart - the purpose of God hardenening Pharaos heart was to make it very clear to the people of isreael that their redemption was from the hands of God and not from the grace of pharaoh.

God comands that each household should take a lamb with out blemish to sacrifice and kill the night of the 10th plague

“They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.” ‭‭

Exodus‬ ‭12‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭12‬:‭‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭ESV

As the disciples gathered to celebrate the passover it was to remember how they were enslaved people who God rescued - They baked break without leaven to remember they ate in haste ready to flee Egypt when God said go

The old testament is all about Jesus concealed and in the new testament its Jesus Revealed.

So as Jesus gathered the disciples for the Passover - He wanted to make it crystal clear that He was the passover Lamb come about to suffer for the sins of the world.

that God's righteous and deserved judgment for our sins might pass over us and be placed on Jesus, the spotless Lamb of God

The prophet Isaiah said

“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭7‬ ‭ESV‬‬

It wasn’t just Isaiah who recognized Jesus as the Lamb who would suffer and die for the sins of the world - John the baptist did as well

“The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭29‬ ‭ESV‬‬

As Jesus came into the Passover - He came blemish free - No sin - No guilt -

He also came willing to die because of His love for you and me

The Israelites gathered every year to remember and celebrate what God had done for them in delivering them from slavery. How much more should we, as followers of Christ, gather to remember and celebrate what Jesus has revealed and accomplished for us? He has delievered us out of the bonds of slavery of sin and into fellowship with Him by the breaking of His body

and we come together as a family, we relive and remember His sacrifice. In taking the bread which I invite you to do now -

we proclaim the power of His love, the transformation He has brought into our lives, and the hope that is available to anyone who would join in fellowship with Him. Let us now take the bread together, in remembrance of Jesus our Passover Lamb

Justin’s Verses Exodus 12:13

2 Corinthians 5:21

Hebrews 10:10-12

2 Peter 1:9